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New law review article: "The Fourth Amendment and the Brave New World of Online Social Networking"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The Fourth Amendment and the Brave New World of Online Social Networking by Nathan Petrashek, 93 Marq. L. Rev. 1495 (2010): No phenomenon is more demonstrative of the brave new technological world than online social networking. Each day, millions of Americans log on to social networking web sites, whose astonishingly rapid user growth has turned many into multi-billion-dollar marketing machines. But wholly aside from their business impact, these web services perform important social functions by allowing users to meet or remain in touch with others, share ideas, start organizations, and generally contribute to a vibrant and open society. Left unstated by Justice Thomas is his notion of how the thorny legal issues surrounding this new communicative forum should be resolved...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).